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2023: A terrible crime waits to be unearthed
Laying out the Bones
What you need to know before your trail
A long, hot summer in Wiltshire is broken by a sudden downpour. Flash floods bring something sinister to the surface – a human skeleton. When forensic testing matches the bones to a man named Lee Geary, reported missing nine years earlier, the case is passed to DI Matt Lockyer.
Geary was a known drug user, so it could be a simple case of misadventure, but Lockyer isn’t so sure. Geary was a townie, and had learning disabilities, so what was he doing out on the Plain all alone? Lockyer soon learns that the year he disappeared, Geary was questioned in relation to another crime – the murder of a young woman named Holly Gilbert.
With the help of DC Gemma Broad, Lockyer begins to dig deeper, and discovers that two other persons of interest in the Holly Gilbert case have also either died or disappeared in the intervening years. A coincidence? Or a string of murders that has gone undetected for nearly a decade…?
Locations
Reset- England - Wiltshire
- A: Everleigh
- B: Salisbury Plain
- C: Stone Henge
- D: Cherhill
- E: West Dean
- F: Devizes - The British Lion
Travel Guide
Wiltshire
Kate writes:
When I first set out to write a crime novel, I knew right away that I would set it in Wiltshire. I grew up on the southern edge of Salisbury Plain, and currently live on its northern edge, so I really didn’t have to look far for inspiration.
It’s the landscape of my childhood, one I’ve always found hugely evocative, and I knew its windswept open spaces, ancient settlements and run down farms would be the perfect place to set a crime series more about human frailty, long-held secrets and repressed emotions than it is about organised gangs or armed response units.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Laying Out the Bones
Destination: Wiltshire Author/guide: Kate Webb Departure Time: 2023
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